Template Search: Exact matching

[ownedbycats]

My readstatus() function can return currentlyreading|toberead|read|unread|undefined.

When I use template:"program:readstatus()#@#:t:read" it captures anything with 'read' in the string, which obviously is a problem here.

Is there a way to have the template search use an exact match so I can avoid the if-value-then-yes template?

^read$ doesn't return antthing.

[chaley]

The compare value is any of the search operators.

In your case I think you want to use an regular expression match mode

template:"program:readstatus()#@#:t:~^read"

or an exact match mode

template:"program:readstatus()#@#:t:=read"

EDIT: As the documentation says: "The value is whatever you want. It can use the special operators described above for the various search types."

[ownedbycats]

That works. I see what happened; when I tried using the advanced search to do it I got this, which didn't work:

template:"program: readstatus()#@#:t:^read$"

Thank you.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

That works. I see what happened; when I tried using the advanced search to do it I got this ...

I will improve the tooltip for the "Template value" box to make it clearer that you must use the search operators for exact and regex searches.